On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:50:52AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 03:47:07PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > Epochs are more inelegant because they never go away, and rather have a > > tendency of needing increases, which has a tendency of getting more > > confusing; > > the ^(0\.)+ parts, on the other hand, disappear when the program authors > > migrate to 1.0 or whatever. > > Unless they go from <date> to 0.x (or 0.0.x, which happened to one of my > packages).
May I kindly remember that I have adressed this point to some extend sooner in this thread in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? I proposed to use 0+YYYYMMDD which is smaller than 0.0. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.

